@HijodelCid: "What changes do you foresee for Canada by the time of its Bicentennial
in 2067?
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    @mcdougak: ""Juan Jose Morales" <email_address> wrote in message 
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- Aboriginals will have attained "critical mass" in parts of Canada   
particularly in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northern Ontario. With 
Aboriginals' numbers giving them political clout, these areas of the country 
will see sweeping social changes by the 2060s on par with Quebec's "Quiet 
Revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s.
- It's just a gut instinct, but somehow I doubt Quebec will be part of 
Canada in 2067.
- There seems to be a momentum building up toward electoral reform. By 2067, 
the "big tent" parties we know today (the Liberals, the Conservatives and 
the NDP) might be much smaller or non-existent, having lost support to 
smaller parties focused on narrow segments of the population in a House of 
Commons elected by proportional representation.
- In 2067, the Canada of 2005 will look as quaint as the Canada of 1943 
looks from today's perspective, a time when the Red Ensign fluttered from 
Canadian flag poles and schoolchildren knew the words to "The Maple Leaf 
Forever" by heart. (Both are now little more than historical footnotes.) The 
same-sex marriage fracas will be as obscure as the conscription crisis; 
Martin/Harper/Layton/Duceppe will have vanished into the mists of history 
along with King/Bracken/Coldwell.
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    @rfmcdonald: "<quote>
I'm not sure about that. The Quiet Revolution involved the social
modernization of a homogeneous culture that was already economically
modern, if somewhat materially deprived. This is altogether different
from the Aboriginals' situation, especially given their ongoing rapid
urbanization.
I'd like to say 50:50 chance of this happening, though I'm not sure. The
recent evolution of the Bloc Qu�b�cois from a political party intent on
guiding Qu�bec to independence to a party that seems content to be a
regional party representing Qu�bec interests suggests that separatism
isn't inevitable.
This is possible, though I think that these parties will still be around
in diminished form. The NDP might emerge strengthened, given that it
would benefit from PR.
 R.F. McDonald
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 "What! call a Turk, a Jew, and a Siamese, my brother? Yes, of course; 
 for are we all not children of the same father, and the creatures of 
 the same God?"
     - Voltaire, from _Treatise on Tolerance,_ 1763"
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